The APFFLON president, Otunba Frank Ogunojemite in white flanked by Akeem Adebayo Ayobiojo, chairman Tin Can Island Command chapter to the extreme left and Olorunfunmi Quadri, MMA Command chapter to the extreme right.
Story by Dili Utomi.
One of the most vibrant freight forwarders associations within the maritime space and arguably the most impactful in terms of members welfare and the advocate for propriety in all areas of the profession is the Africa Association of Professional Freight Forwarders and Logistics Of Nigeria (APFFLON). They took out time to elect new sets of executive committee members for two chapters on Tuesday.
The chapters that will have new executive committee members sworn in later in October are the Murtala Mohammed Airport Command chapter and the Tin Can Island Port Command chapters.
It was at a meeting, Tuesday afternoon at the headquarters of the association that the new members were announced by the president, Otunba Frank Ogunojemite and in front of a crowd of members as well as a few press men.
The president while initiating the process of the event started with the appreciation of members present as he noted that “APFFLON is a child of circumstance that is seven years in the making, an association he stated that came in to plug the lacuna that had existed in the industry which has now become a brand to reckon with”.
He admonished everyone within the industry and with good ideas that can bring positive change to come into the association.
The president said that “The new executive committee members of the two chapters were unanimously agreed to occupy the respective positions that they vied for as he urges everyone to be more committed, more dedicated and more intelligent in order to keep improving on the standard”.
He went to say that it was a day for them to celebrate themselves and to more importantly encourage people to do more by interacting and sharing good ideas.
Otunba Ogunojemite said ” We all need to be part of history by making history, so let us brace up for more great things to come”. Most of the executive committee members retained their positions in the two different chapters.
The newly elected executive committee members for the Murtala Mohammed Airport Command chapter include Olorunfunmi Quadri as chairman, Busayo Okpara as vice chairman, Anselm Eke as secretary, Dare Olorunshaki as treasurer, Olatunji Adegoroye as financial secretary, Abdulrazak Giwa as public relations officer 1, Onochie Chiabua as customs relations officer 1 and Sunday Okunola Folabi as customs relations officer 2.
The Tin Can Island Port Command chapter has the following persons as the executive committee members, Akeem Adebayo Ayobiojo as chairman, Jubril Usman as vice chairman, Charles Nwachukwu as secretary, Anselm Peter Obi as assistant secretary, Peter Mbamaonyeukwu as treasurer, Sunday Aderinoye as assistant treasurer, Rabiu Taoreed as financial secretary, Michael Osuya as assistant financial secretary, Clinton Okoro as public relations officer 1 and Rasheed Tijani as the customs relations officer.
The president in a group photograph with the two new excos after they had been announced.
The announcement of the new executive committee members resulted in rapturous applause from everyone present at the occasion and the new public relations officer of the MMA chapter, Abdulrazak Giwa expressed his heartfelt gratitude on behalf of all the new exco members . The national secretary of the association, Barrister Segun Balogun also used the occasion to admonish the new executive committee members to show maturity and the commitment to build the APFFLON of their dreams.
The newly elected chairmen of the two chapters also spoke to express their gratitude to the president and indeed all members for the call to serve and promised that they will put in their best and that with the necessary amount of cooperation from their respective members, all the good plans and programmes will be properly executed.
A few members of the excos also said some words of exhortation to encourage everyone to be focused in building the APFFLON brand. Inauguration of the two new executive committee members shall take place as stated on the 10th of October at the same venue .
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